Trend and Challenges in Malaysia Printing Industry

Tee Cheong Tuan
President,
The Selangor & Federal Territory Chinese Printing Press’ Association

　　Content of this Presentation
　　　World Economics - Recap what happen in 2008
　　　Asia Pacific Economics – 4 key risks
　　　Malaysia Economics – GDP, Trade Performance, 
　　　Malaysia Printing Industry – Key Statistics
　　　Malaysia Printing Industry – Trends & Challenges

　　World Economics - Recap what happen in 2008
　　　US Subprime crisis spread to the rest of the world
　　　Global capital (debt & equity) markets collapsed
　　　US and European banking crisis
　　　Flight of foreign portfolio money from Asia and other high yield assets
　　　Reversal of Yen carry trades accelerated
　　　Trade credit disruptions
　　　Perceived counter party risks elevated

　　Asia Pacific Economics – 4 key risks
　　　Potential external demand shock
　　　　Large production capacity build-up – resulting over capacity
　　　Sharp slowdown in capital inflows and rise in cost of capital
　　　　Risk capital inflows accelerated since 2003 for almost 5 years resulting in price bubbles
　　　Currency shock
　　　　Dislocations in the balance sheets of many companies and countries with external liabilities
　　　Increased risk of financial instability
　　　　Australia, India, South Korea and Indonesia most affected because of high current-account deficit and tight banking sector liquidity

　　Malaysia Economics
　　GDP and Annual Growth Rates, 2001 – 2008

　　Quarterly GDP Growth, 2006 - 2008

　　

　　Malaysia Top 20 Trading Partners, 2008

　　

　　Malaysia Trade Performance, 2004 - 2008

　　

　　

　　Malaysia Monthly Trade Performance, Jan 2007 – Jan 2009

　　Malaysia Printing Industry

　　Sales Value of Manufactured Products, Jan – Oct 2008

Description of Products	2007 (Jan – Oct) RM’000	2008 (Jan - Oct) RM’000	% Change
Manufactured of pulp, paper and paperboard	1,544,103	1,709,909	10.7
Manufactured of corrugated paper and paperboard and containers of paper and paperboard	2,631,622	2,987,298	13.5
Manufactured of envelopes, letter cards, correspondence cards or plain postcard	165,568	248,834	50.3
Manufactured of toilet paper, cleansing tissues, towels, serviettes	417,639	386,175	-7.5
Manufactured of gummed or adhesive paper in strips or rolls and labels, wallpaper	356,995	362,270	1.5
Publishing of books, brochures, musical books and other publications	783,356	808,713	3.2
Publishing of newspapers, journals and periodicals	1,073,241	1,136,201	5.9
Other publishing	597,394	594,582	-0.5
Printing	410,307	419,506	2.2
Service activities related to printing	1,361,014	1,486,279	9.2

　　

　　Paper & Board –Import /Export Statistics 2006-2008

　　Machinery for Paper, Printing & Book Binding –
　　Import / Export Statistics 2006 - 2008

	EXPORTS (FOB-RM)			IMPORTS (CIF-RM)
	2006	2007	2008 (Jan-Sep)	2006	2007	2008 (Jan-Sep)
Paper/pulp Machinery for manufacture of Paper Articles; Parts.	35,102,356	34,997,000	37,280,444	198,182,370	220,399,972	185,227,645
Printing & Book Binding Machine & Parts thereof	884,595,656	850,502,861	431,980,486	819,178,379	895,946,991	536,357,539

　　Printed Matter  – Import / Export Statistics 2006 – 2008

　　EXPORTS (FOB-RM x million) IMPORTS (CIF-RM x million)

	EXPORTS (FOB-RM x million)			IMPORTS (CIF-RM x million)
	2006	2007	2008 (Jan-Sep)	2006	2007	2008 (Jan-Sep)
Books, Pamplets, Maps & Globes Printed	596.18	570.56	448.45	570.70	522.56	402.28
Newspapers, Journals & Periodicals. Whether or not illustrated or with advertising.	5.27	6.17	5.17	32.40	32.83	48.15
Postcards, Personal Greeting Message or announcement Cards and transfer printed by and process	6.98	5.95	56.29	20.15	25.02	14.81
Printed matter not elsewhere specified.	339.78	922.76	468.76	574.00	819.95	468.44
PRINTED MATTER	948.21	1,505.44	978.67	1,197.25	1,400.36	933.68

Challenges
 Increasing International Competition
 Limited Domestic Demand
 Promoting Outward Investments by Malaysian Companies
 Optimizing Benefit from FTA
 Mandatory Standards
 Upgrading of Skilled & Qualified Workforce
 Research & Development

Trends
 Digital Workflow Environment
 Copier Centre becomes digital printer, photo book, POD…
 Prepress Houses turning into digital and offset printing services
 More Printer acquired CTP, Digital printer, Web solutions, MIS…
 Fast, Efficient and Quality Printer
 More printing units installed such as 8-colours presses
 Prefer Brand New over Used equipments
 Grow in UV printing, Digital presses
 Printers Go DIGITAL….

[时间：2009-05-19  作者：Tee Cheong Tuan   来源：必胜网]